Book Covers

[Lady of Winterfell]

Re: Judging a Book by its Cover

Perhaps this thread could be merged with an earlier thread...

 

[D_Davis]

Re: Judging a Book by its Cover

Or even the spine. When shopping at used book stores, I tend to look for thinner volumes, with a vintage logo, and a cheap price on the spine. I actually go down the shelves in A-Z order with my index finger on the books, and when I find a spine that meets my criteria (thin, low price, Ace, Pyramid or similar publisher) I pull the book and look at its cover. If I like these, there is a good chance that I'll buy the book.

 

[D_Davis]

Re: Judging a Book by its Cover

Perhaps this thread could be merged with an earlier thread...

Nice - I tried to search for something similar, but couldn't find anything. Most of my searches seem to fail at the SFF.

I'm totally down for closing this thread and just continuing the old one.

 

[D_Davis]

Cool!

Mods can close the new thread. I'll just post here.

Thanks.

 

[dask]

Re: Judging a Book by its Cover

Or even the spine. When shopping at used book stores, I tend to look for thinner volumes, with a vintage logo, and a cheap price on the spine. I actually go down the shelves in A-Z order with my index finger on the vooks, and when I find a spine that meets my criteria (thin, low price, Ace, Pyramid or similar publisher) I pull the book and look at cover. If I like these, there is a good chance that I'll buy the book.

Now you're shopping!

 

[D_Davis]

The Psi-Power trilogy looks awesome. Looking forward to reading these.

 

[D_Davis]

Fried Egg, Here's Leo and Diane Dillion's take on Moorcock's classic:

One of my favorite series of cover artists. Everything they did for these Ace paperbacks is amazing. Trying to collect them all.

 

[Radix]

back in the early or mid '70s, these three really grabbed me-

I also really loved the 'Boris' covers for Philip Jose Farmer's "World of Tiers" series~ http://rnuninga.home.xs4all.nl/PJFsl.htm

 

[j d worthington]

Threads merged.

Now... on the Dillons: Anyblooodything they've done is almost certainly going to be eye-catching and stick with you... and their art tends to be of the sort which grows with repeated viewings. An interesting couple, Leo and Diane Dillon: from what I understand, one could pick up immediately where the other left off, even in the middle of a brush-stroke, and continue on, without anyone being able to tell the difference. What makes it even more unusual is that their son (Lionel, iirc) grew up able to do the same thing. With their art, at least, they are a true gestalt organism....

They also did a lot of work for books (as well as individual stories) by Harlan Ellison, and for my money they were the very best to convey the aura of his work.... (They were also great friends, from various accounts.)

 

[Radix]

nowadays I really dig Bob Eggleton's stuff-

 

[D_Davis]

A recent purchase:

 

[blacknorth]

My rather battered UK 1st edition of Wilson Tucker's great telepathy novel, Wild Talent. One of the first sf books I ever read, lucky me:

 

[blacknorth]

Dobson UK 1st edition of Fritz Leiber's The Wanderer. This book seems rather controversial - an awful lot of people don't like it much. I thought it was great.

 

[blacknorth]

Great issue of New Worlds, getting very collectable too:

 

[blacknorth]

One of Robin Cook's earliest and most obscure novels, featuring a dystopian Britain and a cast of machine guns:

 

[dask]

Robin Cook? The medical thriller author?

 

[blacknorth]

Robin Cook? The medical thriller author?

I had always assumed so, but no. I just googled him and he's a completely different Robin Cook, and not the late Labour politician either.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derek_Raymond

 

[dask]

You know, this is "deja vu all over again." I got this funny feeling I asked this question about Robin Cook before. Was this cover by chance posted in another thread a year or so ago?

 

[blacknorth]

You know, this is "deja vu all over again." I got this funny feeling I asked this question about Robin Cook before. Was this cover by chance posted in another thread a year or so ago?

I don't think so, dask. At least, nothing to do with me. I only recently dug my copy out of a box of books I had stored away for some years.

 

[dask]

Okay, thanks. Must be thinking of something else.